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Around Thanksgiving NATO was talking about putting money into old factories to make ammunition for Ukraine old ass weapons.
Here’s a article from today
Still this week Serhiy, who commands a flight of two Mi-8s each flying about three combat sorties a day, tells CNN he clipped a tree. Three of his five rotor blades were damaged and caused a forced landing – a drop of about 20 feet. The venerable Mi-8s – all made before the collapse of the Soviet Union – are over three decades old, their flanks are streaked black with exhaust and oil.
After striking a tree, engineers work to replace the blades on the Soviet-built Mi-8 helicopter.
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Dangerously close to the front line, he could not stay on the ground so, after a quick inspection, took off on his damaged blades. He flew to a rear location where engineers could swap the damaged equipment with three others cannibalized from a different helicopter.
Ukraine’s military is making do. It gets more equipment by capturing it from Russian troops than it gets donated by allies.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has begged NATO and other allies for, among other things, jets and other aircraft. The response so far has been close to nil.
The United Kingdom has offered to boost Ukraine’s helicopter fleet with a handful of ancient Sea King aircraft that have been decommissioned from the military. Portugal, meanwhile, has givensix Russian-made Ка-32А11VS – none of which are even airworthy and which, its defense minister said, Ukraine would have to fix itself.
NATO is giving NATO countries new weapons when they give Ukraine they old shyt. It’s just the propaganda got people thinking only Russia is fighting with old outdated weapons.
